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Queen Elizabeth's Beautiful Gowns
· “I-will-not-try to give you an dress of white Nottingham lace exact description, because, I have slashed across the bodice with the not got the time, and you will find Order of the Garter," and on her all that in the papers. I am simply head the crown bearing the Koh-i- going to give you my impressions Noor diamond. We are told that in a few words: Tam transported, as soon as she was in the car- enchanted, 'amused, and interested, riage for the homeward journey and I believe that I have never she took off the heavy crown'; it is seen anything as beautiful as a long drive and a tiring drive on Paris.
a hot August night, from the Hotel de Ville to St. Cloud
It was
Thus, wrote Queen Victoria to her uncle, King Leopold of the Belgians, on the occasion of her visit with the Prince Consort to the Court of Napoleon III. in the month of August, 1855. Are the private impressions of Queen Elizabeth, just eighty-three years later, as delightfully enthusiastic and spontaneous? We may have to wait many years to know-until such time as some future biograph er has access to the private corres- pondence of her Majesty to intim ate friends at home.
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at this ball that Richard Strauss, who was leading the orchestra, carried away by who knows what "vent de folie," suddenly started playing "God Save the Queen" to polka rhythm!
At the reception at the Hotel de Ville on the second day of the visit to Paris of King George and Queen Elizabeth, her Majesty wore a slim dress of heavy white crepe,
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Queen Victoria was thirty-six the short coat trimmed with white when she came to Paris on this occasion.
hat with curled- Queen Elizabeth is fox. Her small
back brim was trimmed at the thirty-eight practically the same age, but, whereas
front with a posy of lilies-of-the- or present Queen knows Paris intimately, the valley. State visit of Victoria to the Court of Napoleon III was her first visit to Paris in fact, the first time a
At the State dinner given in the openwork, British Sovereign had visited the French capital since the reign of Hall of Mirrors at Versailles, through with a wide black velvet Henry VI. With so many new im Queen Victoria wore a white satin ribbon. With it her Majesty wore dress figured with gold; again the a wide-brimmed crinoline straw
One of these delicious salads ac- pressions to register, including a
State crown and the Order of the trimmed with black velvet ribbon. dramatic visit to the tomb' of the
The comparison of the two companied by fresh rolls and but- Garter. The Empress. Eugenie, we Emperor Napoleon I., can we won-
age told, wore a dress and coiffure "toilettes" worn by these two ter is substantial enough to form der that she was tranported; en champetres, the diamonds in her young Queens is interesting. Queen the main dish at a picnic meal or
the beach. chanted, amused, and interested!
hair arranged without any visible Victoria, according to accounts In connection with this historic mounting, giving the impression and drawings of the period, wore visit it is interesting to read that of dewdrops. At the State lun- pale blue dress with tight-fitting Queen Victoria wore white at most cheon at Versailles, Queen Eliza bodice, short sleeves, and a flowing of the State functions, as Queen beth wore a full ground-length crinoline hand-painted with pale entirely hand-and dark pink roses and green in Paris At the State Ball at the worked in "broderie anglaise," leaves. Queen Elizabeth wore a tailored ensemble in Hotel de Ville, ictoria, woge a 'featuring here and there important white
"rosalba" fabric, the three-quarter sleeves of the coat trimmed with silver fox.
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On the occasion of Queen Eliza beth's visit to the Louvre to view
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ITALIAN SALAD. Take some cooked tongue, ham, veal or beef, the more variety of meat the bet- ter, one apple, several gherkins, one cooked potato and a few fillets of anchovy. Cut the meat, raw apple and other ingredients into small apple and other ingredients small match-like strips. Season with
the exhibition of British master-salt and pepper. Mix thoroughly pieces, and later at the radiant with a good mayonnaise sauce and garden party at Bagatelle, her serve very cold.
ASTOR SALAD.-Equal quanti- Majesty wore a charming garden
ties. of cooked chicken and cold lace party dress in crisp white with flowing
boiled salmon, some asparagus tips skirt and fitted bodice. Her hat was wide and and a little chopped celery, Flake shady, the brim trimmed with flat the salmon, cut the chicken into white. aigrettes: At the waist was small slices, add a few cooked a knot of white jasmine, and in mushrooms. Mix all the ingredients her hand her Majesty carried a and cover with mayonnaise. dainty parasol in the same white
lace.
The Queen's gown at the opera
Here is another suggestion for was magnificent there is no the hamper. other word to describe it. Heavy BOULETTES. The remains of a white duchess satin, the panier cold Joint may be used for this dish. effects on the hips edged with Soak a slice of bread in water, silver lace: A softly-draped Vic-|
́aqueeze it well and put with meat torian decolletage worn well off and a tiny onion through the the shoulders also edged with a mincer Add seasoning, a beaten fichu effect in silver lace caught at egg and form into balls or flat one side with a knot of white cakes. Coat with raspings and fry camellias. White camellias spangl- quickly in hot butter. When cold ed the wide flowing skirt. Her wrap each boulette in a crisp Majesty wore ropes of magnificent lettuce leaf diamonds that seemed to cover the whole of the décolletage and on her head a wide dioram in diamonde,
To come back to Queen Victoria, a charming little tale is her visit to the Louvre. ther was extremely hot, and Queen seemed a little Louvre authorities-- push-chair for the convent
ajesty, which was
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